Dr. Yik Chan Chin is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Beijing Normal University, China. Previously, she worked at the University of Nottingham and at the University of Oxford’s School of Law. Drawing on her educational and research background in computer science, communication, and regulation, her research interests include AI and data governance, digital ethics and law, and internet governance. Her current research projects focus on global AI and data governance, as well as digital governance in China. Her interdisciplinary research papers are published in journals on communication, law, and political science.
Dr. Chin co-leads the United Nations IGF Policy Network on Artificial Intelligence (PNAI), is a member of the United Nations University’s Expert Group on Synthetic Data, an NGO representative to the UN’s Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG), and a member of the Multi-Stakeholder Steering Group of the China Internet Governance Forum (China IGF).Yik Chan Chin（钱忆亲）
Research Pages
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Research Areas
1) AI, Digital Data and Internet Governance;
2) Digital Law and Ethics;
3) China and Digital Technology Policy and Governance
Chronological Employment History
·2020 to Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University, China
·2017-2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communication, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China (Joint venture between the University of Liverpool and Xi’an Jiaotong University),
·2012-2017 Research Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
·2010- 2012 Nottingham Advance Research Fellow, Human Rights Law Centre, School of Law, University of Nottingham, UK
·2007–2010 Research Fellow in Comparative Media law and Policy, Center for Socio-Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, UK
·2005–2007 Research Fellow, Communication and Media Research Institute,University of Westminster, UK
Affiliate Positions
2022- Associate Fellow, Oxford Global Society
https://oxgs.org/people/yik-chan-chin/
Academic Qualifications
PhD Media and Communication, University of Westminster (Funded by the Quintin Hogg Research Scholarship)
MA Transnational Communication and the Global Media, Goldsmiths College, University of London
BSc (Hons.) Computer Science, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Professional Organization Members
- Vice-chair of the Public Media Policies (PMP) Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
- Former Outreach and Partnership Committee Chair of the Global Network of Internet Governance Academics (Giganet)
- Member of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
Service on external bodies：
· Member of United Nations University’s Expert Group on Synthetic Data
· Co-leader of the UN Internet Governance Forum(IGF)‘s Policy Network on Artificial Intelligence (PNAI). 2022 – Present
· NGO representative to the UN’s Open-ended Working Group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security (OWEG) 2020- Present
· Member of ICANN’s Asian, Australasian and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization (APRALO) 2016- Present
· Multi-Stakeholder Steering Group (MSG) member of the Asian Pacific Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) 2015 – 2022
· Multi-Stakeholder Steering Group (MSG) member of China Internet Governance Forum (China IGF) 2019- Present
· Member of the AI working Group of China Internet Governance Forum 2023 – present
· Member of the Expert Committee of China’s Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA) 2024 -
Relevant and Recent Publications
Journal Papers
Yik Chan Chin & Ke, Li (accepted for publication, 2024) Regulating Sovereignty in Cyberspace: Contestation for Concepts and Policies, Communication+1, Special Issue “Digital Sovereignty”.
Yik Chan Chin (2024) AI Governance Under the UN System. China Information Security, 04：62-66, 71.
Yik Chan Chin (2023) From Fragmentation to Collaboration: The Potential Path of Global Governance for Cross－Border Data Flow, Chinese Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 2023(01):46-69. (CSSCI Indexed)
Chin, Yik Chan (2023) The Application of International Law in Cyberspace in OEWG Process. China Information Security, 05：76-78.
Chin, Yik-Chan, and Jingwu Zhao. 2022. Governing Cross-Border Data Flows: International Trade Agreements and Their Limits. Laws, 11: 63. https:// doi.org/10.3390/laws11040063, (ESSCI & Scopus Indexed)
Chin, Yik Chan, Park, Ahran, & Li, Ke (2022). A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms. Policy& Internet, 14, 263–283. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.301. (SSCI Indexed)
Muller, Milton & Yik Chan Chin (2022) Editorial: Platform governance by competing systems of political economy: The United States and China. Policy& Internet, 14, 240-242. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.306. (SSCI Indexed)
Yik Chan Chin (2021) Cyberspace "Sovereignty Issues" Disputes, Evolution and Future in the Second Half of 2020, China Information Security, 12:85-89.
Alessandro D’Arma, Minna Aslama Horowitz, Yik Chan Chin (2020) Editorial: Advocating for Public Service Media: Scholarship and Praxis, Interactions, 11(2):129-133. https://doi.org/10.1386/iscc_00014_2
Chin, Yik Chan (2018) The Legitimation of Media Regulation in China. Chinese Political Science Review. 3, 172–194. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-018-0099-x (ESSCI & Scopus Indexed)
Yik Chan Chin & Changfeng Chen (2017) Internet governance: an exploration of an integrated approach. Global Media Journal, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 4-31. DOI：10.16602/j.gmj.20170012
Changfeng Chen & Yik Chan Chin (2017) Editorial: Internet governance: an exploration of an integrated approach. Global Media Journal, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 1-3.
Yik Chan Chin (2015) Constitutional rights and truth and fair comment defences in Chinese right to reputation lawsuits. Media and Arts Law Review, 20:422-452.https://ssrn.com/abstract=2790750
Yik Chan Chin (2014) Privilege and Public Opinion Supervision Defenses in China’s Right to Reputation Litigation, Media and Arts Law Review, 19:276-299.https://ssrn.com/abstract=2525102
Yik Chan Chin (2013) Regulating social media, regulating life (and lives), Rhodes Journalism Review, 33.
Yik Chan Chin (2012) Public Service Broadcasting, Public Interest and Individual Rights in China, Media, Culture & Society, 34(7): 898–912. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443712452700 (SSCI Indexed)
Yik Chan Chin (2011) Policy Process, Policy Learning, and the Role of Provincial Media in China, Media, Culture and Society, Vol.33. No.2:193-210.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443710393381(SSCI Indexed)
Yik-Chan Chin (2003) The Nation-state in A Globalizing Media Environment: China’s
regulatory policies on transborder TV drama flow. Javnost/The Public, Vol.10, 4, 75-94.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2003.11008842(SSCI Indexed)
Yik-Chan Chin (2003) “China’s Regulatory Policies on Transnational Drama Flow”. Media
Development, 3/2003, 17-22.
Monograph and edited book
Yik Chan Chin (2017&2018) Television Regulation and Media Policy in China (hardback & softback). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203798751
Yik Chan Chin (forthcoming, 2025) Governance of the Digital in China: Global Governance, State Legitimacy and Digital Technology, London and New York: Palgrave. Palgrave-IAMCR Series.
Tambini, Damian & Chin, Yik Chan (forthcoming, 2026) (eds.) Handbook of Media Regulation, Cheltenham:Edward Elgar.
Book Chapters
Yik Chan Chin (2024) ”Rights to Data Access in the Digital Era: the Case of China. in Minna Horowitz & Hannu Nieminen; Katja Lehtisaari; Alessandro D’Arma (eds.) Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption, London:Palgrave-MacMillan. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-45976-4_13
Yik Chan Chin (2024) Media Policy, Routledge Encyclopedia of Chinese Studies, Routledge Online.
Yik Chan Chin (2020) “Internet Governance in China: the network governance approach”. In Zhenxu Wang and Dragan Pavlicevic (eds.) Social Relations and Political Development in China: Change and Continuty in the ‘New Era’. London: Routledge, pp: 134-153. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003032151-8/internet-governance-china-yik-chan-chin
Yik Chan Chin (2013) “Policy Process, Policy Learning, and the Role of Provincial Media in China”. In. Michael Kean and Wanning Sun (eds.) Chinese Media. London: Routledge.
Yik Chan Chin and Matthew Johnson (2012) “Public Service: New Paradigms of Policy, and Reform in China”. In. Gregory Ferrell Lowe and Jeanette Steemers (eds.) Regaining the Initiative for Public Service Media: RIPE@2011 Reader, NORDICOM. Pp.149-166. https://ssrn.com/abstract=2790751
Chin Yik-Chan (2007) “From the local to the global: China’s TV policy in Transition”. In Manfred Kops and Stefan Ollig (eds.) Internationalization of the Chinese TV Sector. Berlin: Lit Verlag:221-240. https://ssrn.com/abstract=1868587
Recent Policy Reports
Marwala, Tshilidzi et al. (2024) Recommendations on the Use of Synthetic Data to Train AI Models, Policy reported produced by the United Nations University’s Expert Group on Synthetic Data. https://unu.edu/publication/recommendations-use-synthetic-data-train-ai-models
Wendehorst, Christiane et al. (2024) Narratives of Digital Ethics: Academies for Global Innovation and Digital Ethics. Policy report produced by the Austria Academy of Science, Austria.
IGF Policy Network on AI (PNAI) (2024) Policy Network on Artificial Intelligence Input to the UN AI Advisory Body’s Open Consultations, March 2024.
Yik Chan Chin, et al (2023) “Interoperability of AI governance” in Policy Network on Artificial Intelligence (2023). Strengthening multistakeholder approach to global AI governance, protecting the environment and human rights in the era of generative AI. Sipinen, M. (Ed.) United Nations Internet Governance Forum, https://www.intgovforum.org/en/filedepot_download/282/26545
Mansi Keida, Mira Burri, Yik Chan Chin & Susan Ariel Aaronson（2023）Governing cross-border data flows: International trade agreements and their limits, Oxford Global Society, UK. https://oxgs.org/2023/04/12/governing-cross-border-data-flows-international-trade-agreements/
(2023) China IGF Input to the Global Digital Compact. Consultation report submitted by the China Internet Governance Forum (China IGF) to the UN Office of the SG’s Envoy on Technology https://www.un.org/techenvoy/sites/www.un.org.techenvoy/files/GDC-submission_China-IGF_0.pdf
Recent Conference, Seminar and Public Presentations
a) Academic Conference and Seminar
Yik Chan Chin (2024) Europe-China AI Forum: Can Europe and China Cooperate on AI? AI governance · Industry · Research. 3-4 October 2024 , Gillis Lecture Theatre, Balliol College, Oxford University.
Yik Chan Chin & Ke Li (2024) Regulating Sovereignty in Cyberspace: Contestation of Concepts and Policies, seminar organized by University of Siegen, Germany, 26 June, 2024, online.
Yik Chan Chin (2023) ‘The interoperability of AI governance: the Policy Network on AI process and beyond’, Centre for Social Legal Studies’ Regulation and Governance cluster event- AI regulation in action: empirical and insider perspectives, 11th October 2023, University of Oxford.
Yik Chan Chin (2023) “Right to Data Access in the Digital Era: the Case of China”, Giganet Annual Symposium, 4 October 2023, Kyoto, Japan, hybrid.
Yik Chan Chin (2023) Right to Data Access in the Digital Era: the Case of China, Paper Presented in the 2023 IAMCR annual Conference, 9 -13 July, Lyon, France.
Yik Chan Chin, Ahran Park and Li, Ke (2022) “A Comparative Study on False Information Governance in Chinese and American Social Media Platforms”, Association of Internet Researcher (AoIR) 2022 conference: De-colonising the Internet, Technological University Dublin, Ireland.
He, Qing and Yik Chan Chin (2022) Digital Platform’s Personal Information Protection andAntitrust Regulatory Boundary. 2022 IAMCR Pre-Conference: Digital Governance andTranscultural Communications, 8 July 2022, Virtual Online.
Yik Chan Chin and Jingwu Zhao (2022) Governing Cross-Border Data Flows :International trade agreements and their limits, IGP annual conference, “From Internet Governance to Digital Political Economy”, October 17-18, The Hague, NL.
Yik Chan Chin and Jingwu Zhao (2022) Governing Cross-Border Data Flows : International trade agreements and their limits, the 2nd International Cyberspace Governance Forum,9th-10th June 2022, Beijing, China
Yik Chan Chin, Ahran Park and Li, Ke (2021) A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms, the Comparative Analysis of Platform Governance in the US and China Conference, Virtual Online, 23-25 August 2021.
Yik Chan, Chin and Li, Ke （2021）A Comparative analysis of Cyber Sovereignty Policies in China and the EU. TPRC49: The 49th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy, August 6, 2021.https://ssrn.com/abstract=3900752or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3900752
Chin, Yik Chan and Li, Ke (2021) Sovereignty in Cyberspace: EU and China Compared. Paper presented at the 2021 Annual GigaNet Symposium (virtual), 6 December, 2021.
Yik Chan Chin (2018) Fake News and Social Media in China. Paper Present on 2018 Annual IAMCR Conference, University of Oregon, USA, July 2018.
Chin, Yik Chan and Chen, Changfeng (2017) Internet Governance: Exploration of Power Relationship. Proceeding of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) Annual Symposium, December 2017.http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3107239
b) Public Forums
United Nations
2024, Speaker at the Plenary Session: How to Use Synthetic Data to Train AI Models. The UNU Macau AI Conference 2024: the Path towards AI For Al, 24-25 April 2024, Macau, China. https://aimacau-2024.org/plenary-room/
2024, Speaker at the Panel on Global AI Ethics and Regulation, The United Nations University Macau AI Conference 2024, 24-25 April 2024, Macau, China.
2024, Presentation at OEWG Thematic session on existing and potential threats to security in the use of ICTs, 13 May, 2024 UN Headquarter, New York, USA
2023, Intervention from the School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University at the fourth substantive OEWG meeting, 9th March, 2023, UN Headquarter, New York, USA
2022, Intervention from the School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University at the Third Substantive Session of the Open-ended Working Group on developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security (OEWG), 21st July 2022, UN Headquarter, New York, USA.
2022, Workshop#69 Governing Cross-Border Data Flows, Trade Agreements & Limits, 17th Annual IGF Meeting, hosted by the Government of Ethiopia, 28 November to 2 December 2022, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Governmental Consultation
2024, Consultant for the U.S. Department of State on social media applications, September 2024
Others
2023, Cybersecurity and Information Integrity: Addressing Challenges and Imperatives for Global South Engagement, discussion organized by the Ditchley Foundation, UK, 21st November, Online.
2023, Governing cross-border data flows: International trade agreements and their limits, seminar organized by Oxford Global Society, UK, 4th November 2022
Virtual Online:
2022, To sanction or not to sanction the Internet access: A SancNet debate, 1st April 2022, seminar organized by UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, GigaNet, Digital Medusa, ARTICLE19 &University of Amsterdam, IN-SIGHT.it project, Virtual Online.
LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sancnet
Research Profile
Ongoing Research Projects
2023- 2024, Member of the Research Assessment Panels on AI, Information Ecosystems and Democracy of the Forum on Information and Democracy, contributing to its policy report on Information and Democracy Report – Working Towards a Structure.
2023- 2024, United Nations University’s Expert Group on Synthetic Data, responsible for producing its policy report Recommendations on the Use of Synthetic Data to Train AI Models
2022-2024, Member of the AGIDE Working Party for the research project Academies for Global Innovation and Digital Ethics, a project led by Professor Christiane Wendehorst, the President of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
Research Grants Awarded
2018-2023 Co-Investigator Chinese National Social Science Fund Major Project, Information Value in the Intelligent Age (Project Approval Number: 18ZDA307)
2018-2021 Co-Investigator Chinese Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Fund Project, Research in the Global Internet Governance
2018-2021 Principal Investigator Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Research Development Fund (RDF), “Big Data Ethics in China’s Social Media Sector”
2015- 2017 Principal Investigator Hong Kong Research Grant Council, General Research Fund (GRF) “Social Media in China: the network governance perspective”
2010-2012 Principal Investigator, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Research Grants of Taiwan, “Researching Law in Society in China: The interplay between the law and media in defamation litigation (1992-2009)”
2010-2012 European Commission, Project Grants on “Protecting the media through the law” (a collaborative project between the Greater China Centre and the Programme of Comparative Media Law and Policy in Oxford)
2009 Principal Investigator, British Academy Research Grants on “Chinese Broadcasting Policymaking in Transition (2009-2010): Actors, Structure and Process”
2008 Principal Investigator, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Research Support Grant on “Libel litigation and the Media in China”
Journal Peer-Reviewer
Peer reviewer for “Big Data and Society”, “Computer Law & Security Review”, “Journal of Electric Broadcasting and Media”, “China Information”, “China Quarterly”, “Political Economy of Communication”, “Journal of Chinese Political Science”, “New Media and Society”, ‘Asian Journal of Communication’, "Convergence", "International Journal of Press/Politics",‘Television and New Media’, Palgrave Macmillan’s Culture & Media Studies series, Routledge and etc.
Teaching Responsibilities
Cyberspace Governance
Digital Media and Society
Digital Law and Ethics
Recent Third Mission Activities
4 October 2023, Co-organised Giganet Annual Symposium, Kyoto, Japan, hybrid.
28 November 2022, Co-orgnised Workshop#69 Governing Cross-Border Data Flows, Trade Agreements & Limits, 17th Annual IGF Meeting, hosted by the Government of Ethiopia, 28 November to 2 December 2022, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
8 July 2022, Co-organised the IAMCR Pre-Conference: Digital Governance and Transcultural Communications, Virtual Online.
https://iamcr.org/beijing2022/digital-governance
9-10 June 2022, Co-orgnised the 2nd International Cyberspace Governance Forum, Virtual Online
http://fxy.buaa.edu.cn/info/1009/7230.htm
http://fxy.buaa.edu.cn/info/1003/7239.htm
8 December 2021, Co-organised the 2021 IGF Workshop #WS77 Antitrust Regulation of Internet Platforms in Global Outlook, Virtual Online
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0gAX-o3thk
23-25 August 2021, Co-organised the Comparative Analysis of Platform Governance in the US and China conference, Virtual Online.
12 Nov 2020, Co-organisd the 2020 IGF Workshop #180 Trust, Media Ethics & Governance During COVID-19 Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goiquUi0kyw
27 Nov 2019, Co-organised the 2019 IGF Workshop#85 Misinformation, Responsibilities & Trust
13th Nov 2018, Co-organised the 2018 IGF Workshop#11 “AI and Ethics: privacy, transparency and construction of knowledge”
3-4 December 2016, Co-organised the conference “Social Media Policy and Regulation: the Network perspective” （“网络治理视角下的社交媒体，政策与规制”研讨会）in collaboration with School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University
http://caijing.chinadaily.com.cn/2016-12/06/content_27589381.htm
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